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If you do a search for sex link here on BYC, you may find the very informative article about sex links. The first post has been edited to hold the majority of the information, including the "recipes" for different sex links. It is well worth the time to find it and read it.
Also Stromberg's Chicks & Gamebirds Unlimited catalog has the "recipe" for several crosses. This year's catalog shows them on Page 45. Different hatcheries call their sex links by different names, but they are essentially the same thing. The father passes his color to his daughters. The mother passes her color to her sons. When the chicks hatch you are 99% sure who is what. (There is always that Weirdo that shows up!)
I have considered trying a hatch from my Dominique girls and a red Ameracuana rooster. It probably would make sex links, but the two girls I have are only half Dominique (their daddy gave them their coloring, their moms were Ameracuana....).
As a friend once said, "It's all in how the DNA dice roll!"
If they are barred, then yes their chicks would be Sex-Linked just as the same as a purebred Dom hen's chicks would be. Purebred Dominique hens only carry one barring gene, which they pass to their male offspring. If they are crossed with any solid colored rooster, they will send one barred gene to their male offspring and none to their females, so the females will usually be pure black when hatched and the males will have the Dominique spot.
If you do a search for sex link here on BYC, you may find the very informative article about sex links. The first post has been edited to hold the majority of the information, including the "recipes" for different sex links. It is well worth the time to find it and read it.
Also Stromberg's Chicks & Gamebirds Unlimited catalog has the "recipe" for several crosses. This year's catalog shows them on Page 45. Different hatcheries call their sex links by different names, but they are essentially the same thing. The father passes his color to his daughters. The mother passes her color to her sons. When the chicks hatch you are 99% sure who is what. (There is always that Weirdo that shows up!)
I have considered trying a hatch from my Dominique girls and a red Ameracuana rooster. It probably would make sex links, but the two girls I have are only half Dominique (their daddy gave them their coloring, their moms were Ameracuana....).
As a friend once said, "It's all in how the DNA dice roll!"
If they are barred, then yes their chicks would be Sex-Linked just as the same as a purebred Dom hen's chicks would be. Purebred Dominique hens only carry one barring gene, which they pass to their male offspring. If they are crossed with any solid colored rooster, they will send one barred gene to their male offspring and none to their females, so the females will usually be pure black when hatched and the males will have the Dominique spot.
